A Home Office pathologist, who carried out a post-mortem examination on Zofija Kaczan, told a trial how she found no evidence of that any previous infection would have been in the victim’s lungs prior to her being robbed.

And CCTV was also played at Derby Crown Court of the man the prosecution claim is responsible for the death, driving at the location at the time she was attacked.

Arthur Waszkiewicz,40, of Wolfa Street, is on trial for the manslaughter and robbery of Mrs Kaczan, who was attacked in Empress Road, Normanton, as she walked to church at around 8.45am on Monday May 28, 2018.

Denies the charge

It is alleged he got out of his car, knocked her to the ground and fled in the Seat Leon, having stolen her handbag.

Mrs Kaczan, who survived the Nazis during the Second World War and who had turned 100 earlier the same month she was robbed, was helped to the nearby St Maksymilian Kolbe Church, by friends who found her injured in the street.

A man is appearing at Derby Crown Court charged with the manslaughter of 100 year old Zofija Kaczanas, as she died following her mugging on the junction of St Chads Road and Empress Road in Derby

She was taken to hospital and died a week later.

Waszkiewicz denies both charges saying it was not him who carried out the attack or the robbery.

What the pathologist said

Pathologist Frances Hollingsbury was asked to read out Mrs Kaczan’s cause of death.

She replied: “Pneumonia caused by injuries sustained in an incident on May 28, 2018.

“She would not have died when she did, had she not sustained those injuries.”

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PC Daniel Goodman played a number of CCTV stills to the jury which were seized from the local area both before and after the robbery.

They showed Mrs Kaczan leaving her Empress Road home and walk down the street where she lived at the same time that a Seat Leon, which Waszkiewicz accepts he was behind the wheel of, driving down the same street.

COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH - ARCHIVE IMAGE / GETTY IMAGES A man is appearing at Derby Crown Court charged with the manslaughter of 100 year old Zofija Kaczanas, as she died following her mugging on the junction of St Chads Road and Empress Road in Derby

He then showed footage of the Seat stopping after the robbery, in nearby Moore Street, where a figure is seen getting out of the driver’s side and discarding an item which is later recovered and found to be Mrs Kaczan’s stolen handbag.

The jury also heard from a police support staff worker who carried out analysis that revealed how a mobile phone, which belonged to Waszkiewicz, was being used in the area of the robbery both before and after it happened.

Miss Brunner asked the witness: “Is that consistent with the phone being used at or near the defendant’s home, at or near the offence location and at or near the location where the handbag was discarded?”